Portal:Current events/2011 July 26

July 26, 2011 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Business and economy

The Reserve Bank of India increases interest rates to 8% in an effort to contain inflation which is currently at 9.44%. (BBC)
Britain's Trinity Mirror reviews its editorial guidelines in light of the News of the World phone hacking affair. (AP via Yahoo News)^{[permanent dead link]}
U.S. Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, in a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission, demands that they block the effort of telephone giant AT&T to buy rival T-Mobile USA. (Reuters)

Disasters

A Moroccan military transport plane crashes into a mountain in the south of the country killing 78 of 81 on board. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

Senior North Korean diplomat Kim Kye Gwan heads to the United States for discussions on reopening the six-party talks on his country's nuclear weapons program. (Yonhap News)

Law and crime

Senegalese rapper and government critic Omar Toure is arrested. (BBC)
Sri Lankan police hunt for 20 local television actresses alleged to be part of a prostitution ring. (Xinhua)
A shootout at a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, leaves 17 dead. (Fox News)
David Cecil, an unemployed truck driver, is charged with hacking into Platform Networks's network. (Kansas City Star)(CBS News)(The Australian)

Politics

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is re-elected Prime Minister of Vietnam. (Government Web Portal of Vietnam)
David Wu resigns as a member of the United States House of Representatives following allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old. (New York Times)
Luis Gutiérrez, an Illinois member of the United States House of Representatives, is arrested outside the White House in Washington, D.C., during protests calling for immigration reform. (Rollcall)

Science

A dog is discovered carrying the hendra virus in the Australian state of Queensland near the town of Beaudesert. It is the first time the virus has been detected in a species other than flying foxes, horses or humans. (AAP via News Limited)